Three men are set to appear at Crown Court in June charged with kidnapping and torturing a man.

Andrew Moore, Daryl Clough and Marcus Hart appeared at Plymouth Magistrates Court today where they each faced one count of assaulting and unlawfully detaining and injuriously imprisoning a man, detaining him against his will.

Prosecutor Gareth Warden briefly outlined the case against 36-year-old Moore of Charlotte Street, Plymouth, 27-year-old Clough of no fixed abode and 24-year-old Hart, also of no fixed abode.

He said the victim had allegedly been bundled into a taxi owned by Moore on March 31 this year in a street near Albert Road, Devonport.